Water Lilies. Painted in 1918; The first of many in the series titled 'Water Lilies'. All of the paintings featured show the flowers in a body of water. Rouen Cathedral: Full Sunlight. Painted in 1892-3; One from Monet's series 'Rouen Cathedral'. He painted over 30 in his collection, but only presented 20. The Magpie.
The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light, Claude Monet, 1894, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.
Oct 6, 2022 · Claude Monet was one of the founders of the French Impressionist movement in painting. Born in Paris, France, on November 14, 1840, Claude Monet was the son of a grocer. He attended the Le Havre secondary school of the arts from 1856 to 1857, where he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin, who taught him the importance of studying nature directly.Oct 16, 2023 · Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 107 cm × 73.5 cm (42 in × 28.9 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. The Rouen Cathedral series of oil paintings of the Rouen Cathedral were done by Claude Monet in the 1890s. The paintings in the series each capture the front of the cathedral at different times of the day and year.
A period of travel followed in the 1880s, and in 1883 he acquired a property at Giverny, north-west of Paris. Thereafter Monet concentrated on the production of the famous series showing a single subject in different lighting conditions, including poplars, haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and his own garden at Giverny. Monet, considered the father of impressionism, approached painting as a meditation on the effects of light and color. He embarked in 1889 on “the series paintings,” in which he made several works of identical subject matter but with varied times of day and seasons. From 1892 to 1894, Monet painted thirty views of the Rouen Cathedral from